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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Discharge instructions"”.
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Empowering Patients: Simplifying Discharge Instructions
… ED with partial comprehension of their visit and discharge instructions. Patients who are not adequately informed as to their discharge plans have decreased compliance with medications and treatment plans, decreased patient safety, increased Emergency Department (ED) recidivism, and poor patient …
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Preventing 30-Day Readmissions of Clostridium difficile Patients Utilizing Targeted Discharge Instructions
… in hospitalized patients. Following a targeted discharge education intervention focused on nursing providers and patients, a decrease in 30-day readmissions of healthcare-acquired <em>Clostridium difficile infection</em> was identified at a sustained rate of 14% for 30-day readmissions.</p>
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Older Adults’ Implementation of Discharge Instructions Following an Acute Care Hospital Stay
<p>Discharge instructions are a self-care guide for patients after discharge from an acute care hospitalization. The discharge process starts on admission to the hospital and continues until discharged. Many patients rely on informal caregivers to provide support after a discharge. However, it is …
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Protecting the Rights of Limited English Proficiency Patients During Hospital Discharge
Discharge instructions were originally created to alleviate the burden of transitioning from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient care. The US healthcare model's evolution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has firmly distinguished inpatient providers from outpatient providers, with little …
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Older persons' experiences of hospital patient education and self-management of their chronic diseases once discharged home
… explore elderly patients’ perspectives regarding discharge instructions related to self-management of their chronic illnesses once they were discharged from the hospital to their home. The combination of the growing elderly population, inadequate health literacy, and the prevalence of comorbidity …
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Avoiding 30-day Readmissions of Acute MI Patients Utilizing Cardiac Rehabilitation
… Francisco Medical Center within 5-7 days post discharge this year. Two of the main identified causes were symptom management issues and medication instructions, both of which are part of the discharge instructions. It’s not surprising that 80% of all discharge teaching is forgotten by patients …
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Lost in Translation
… the Registered Nurse (RN) will review all discharge instructions in the patients room in their preferred language. Plan time for the discharge and facilitate a calm quiet environment, such as the patient’s room with the door closed, if possible. Get the discharge instructions printed out in …
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Assessing Knowledge of Heart Failure Education in Nurses and Nurse Practitioners Throughout the Transition of Care Period in the Rural Health Setting
… are at the forefront of providing HF patients discharge instructions and education, which should include symptom recognition and management. The aim of this project inquiry was to assess the knowledge of HF education and perceived barriers to providing HF education by nurses and nurse …
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Increasing Self Care Compliance with Follow-up Appointments
… failure patient faces many challenges after discharge from the hospital. Learning how to manage diet, medications, and other lifestyle changes needed for symptom management can lead to multiple readmissions and rapid progression of condition. Many patients feel overwhelmed at time of …
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Minimizing Inpatient Readmissions Through the Use of Discharge Phone Calls
<p>Discharge phone call is a new approach that many hospitals are utilizing to ensure a patient’s safe transition home. A study showed that 65 percent of patients said, during hospitalization, no one discussed about managing their care at home (Clark et al., 2005). Hospital reimbursements are based …
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A Roadmap for the Journey Home - A Supplemental Tool Guiding Patients from Hospital to Home
… (Berry et al., 2013). Patient education and discharge planning are associated with decreased readmission rates. I gained fieldwork experience at Children’s Health System of Texas in Dallas. Children’s Health, a pediatric non-profit, is the 8th largest pediatric health care provider in the …
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Wellness Information Network (WIN): A Patient Empowerment Mobile Application for Improved Health Literacy and Disease Management for Type-2 Diabetes
… literacy ranges from not understanding basic discharge instructions written by medical practitioners to grasping available treatment options. Poor comprehension of disease literature and treatment options leads to inadequate self-care management. Leveraging the Design Science Research …
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Examining patients’ satisfaction in Jordanian emergency departments through business process improvement implementation
… clear information on patients’ conditions, discharge instructions, and future visits, which generated better ratings. This research is important in many respects. It uncovered the dearth of specific quantitative metrics on patients’ satisfaction in Jordan. Most measures of the construct are …
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The effectiveness of a "patient discharge information" booklet in patient education programs in Saudi Arabia
1 PDF file (xiv, 230 pages)
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A Retrospective Chart Review of Hospital Based Wound Discharge Planning and 30-Day Readmission Rates
… and to improve the quality of care through both discharge planning and follow-up appointments which aim to avoid unnecessary readmission. Based on a recent thesis (Kyles, 2011), 83 patients with both a wound related complication and same-cause diagnosis consisted of 5% of the 1,781 readmitted …
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An Analytics Approach To Reducing Hospital Readmission
… are re-hospitalized within 30 days after discharge which incurs an annual cost of $17 billion. However, it is reported by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission that about 75% of such readmissions can and should be avoided because they are the results of factors such as poor planning for …